[I’m hoping this will be a regular Friday or Saturday thing]

As of this morning, we’re just starting to get news in the Italian press of the find of the sunken bits of Neapolis, off the coast of Tunisia:

• Ricercatori italiani hanno scoperto la città sommersa di Neapolis in Tunisia – La Stampa
• Incredibile scoperta archeologica: trovata Neapolis, città sommersa nel golfo di Hammamet in Tunisia – Meteo Web
• Scoperta città sommersa in Tunisia – ANSA.it

Also from the Italian press, a Roman amphora find off Rimini:

• Una preziosa e antica anfora romana recuperata dai sommozzatori della Finanza|Rimini Today
• Anfora romana ritrovata in Adriatico, la scoperta della Gdf | Buongiorno Rimini

The Italian press is also taking the lead on a very important inscription/tomb find in Pompeii:

• Pompei: Nigidius, il liberto amico di Nerone che offrì giochi degni del Colosseo – Repubblica.it

… while the English coverage is just starting to appear:

• Pompeii rivalled Rome for big fight night |The Times (paywall)
• Tomb depicting famous gladiator brawl discovered in Pompeii – ANSA

… and Mary Beard’s blogpost in the TLS is useful

• The new inscription from Pompeii: reading between the lines – TheTLS

A followup to that Roman naval diploma find:

• Metal detectorist finds Britain’s first Roman Fleet diploma near Lanchester, in County Durham (From The Northern Echo)

Some followups to the earthquake that hit Kos last week:

• Earthquake Damaged Kos Sites and Monuments, Archaeological Service Reports | Greek Reporter
• Kos Archaeological Museum assesses quake damage | Life | ekathimerini.com
• Tornos News | Kos Archaeological Museum reopening to visitors on Saturday

Followup to a farmer’s discovery of a Roman mosaic a few weeks ago:

• Mosaic to move to Gaziantep – Hurriyet

A mosaic find from Perge:

• 1,800-year-old mosaic found in ancient city of Perge – Hurriyet

Interesting well find from Parion/Parium:

• 2,700 year-old healing water discovered in Parion ancient city in Turkey’s Çanakkale – Daily Sabah

A Roman-era necropolis from Usak:

• 2,000-year-old empty tombs unearthed in Uşak – Daily Sabah

Review of an interesting production of the Eumenides:

• Manhattan’s District Attorney vs. Aeschylus – The New York Times

“House of Names” tries to “out-Euripides Euripides”:

• Novelizing Greek Myth | The New Yorker

Latest on malaria in the Roman world:

• 2,000 Year old β-thalassemia case in Sardinia suggests malaria was endemic by the Roman period – Viganó – 2017 – American Journal of Physical Anthropology – Wiley Online Library

… related press coverage:

• Malaria already endemic in the Mediterranean by the Roman period — ScienceDaily
• Malaria already endemic in the Mediterranean by the Roman period | Phys Org

On Etruscans and bees:

• The Etruscans Were Expert Beekeepers, Ancient Honeycombs Suggest

Feature on Kalkriese:

• Unearthing the mysteries of the ′battle that created Germany′ | DW

On some ancient ‘fake news’:

• Nero, the Execution of Peter and Paul, and the Biggest Fake News in Early Christian History| Daily Beast

This one includes an audio interview with Tom Nealon on garum:

• How a Smelly Fish Sauce Helped Solve One of Ancient Rome’s Mysteries – Mother Jones

A feature on the ‘Secret Cabinet’:

• The Trove of Erotic Roman Art That Scandalized Europe’s Royals

Feature on the Nashville Parthenon:

• Why Is There a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee? | Artsy

Feature on the ballista (Game of Thrones tie-in):

• The History of the Ballista – Game of Thrones New Weapon Is a Dragon-Killing Ballista | Popular Mechanics

Forbes columnists:

• Philosophy Leads To Father-Beating: Or, Why All Parents Should Read Aristophanes’ Clouds | David Barr
• A Summer Day In The Life Of A Roman Bioarchaeologist | Kristina Killgrove
• Five References To The Ancient And Late Roman World Within ‘Game Of Thrones’ | Sarah Bond

Peter Jones’ latest in the Spectator:

• ‘Cuts’ to blame for dementia? How Plato and Galen would have scoffed | The Spectator

This week’s comparisons of current events to the ancient world:

• Donald Trump presidency has echoes of ancient Greece | Sydney Morning Herald
• Ancient Greeks would not have considered the US to be a democracy — Quartz

[just noticed this in my drafts folder; I don’t think it was ever psoted]

Some Classical bloggery of note, in no particular order:

• Great epigraphic news from Pompeii | Current Epigraphy
• Design Sprint for Perseus 5.0/Open Greek and Latin » Perseus Digital Library Updates
• Review: Packard Humanities Institute’s Searchable Greek Inscriptions | Society for Classical Studies
• Gaius Asinius Pollio and the first Public Library in Ancient Rome | Eagles and Dragons Publishing
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion (1993 – 2016): Concise Indexes
• John Donne, ‘Daybreak’ (Latin Sapphics) | Permessus
• More than an Amazon: Wonder Woman | OUPblog
• Hail fellow, well MET: a follow up to ‘Gambling in Greek’ | Greek in Italy

A few from Mary Beard:

• The new inscription from Pompeii: reading between the lines – TheTLS
• Grenfell Tower and the Fire of Rome – TheTLS
• What do academics do in the summer ‘vacation’ – TheTLS

… with a response to the latter:

• My summer “vacation” | Aegean prehistory

A couple from Edith Hall:

• The Edithorial: How Virgil Framed Dido
• The Edithorial: A Year of Campaigning for Classics Education Begins!

Roger Pearse had a series of posts looking at the Quirinal Temple of the Sun/Serapis in Rome:

• “Numerous 16th century drawings” of the Temple of the Sun / Serapis in Rome – Roger Pearse
• Peruzzi’s drawing shows the real arrangement of the stairs at Aurelian’s temple of the sun / Serapis on the Quirinal – Roger Pearse
• Some dictionary material on the Quirinal temple of the Sun / Serapis – Roger Pearse
• The mystery picture of the Quirinal temple and the newly built Quirinal palace – Roger Pearse

July 28 was the annual Day of Archaeology … here are some of the posts of relevance to Classics:

• SMALL FINDS CONSERVATOR IN SIDON (3) A Rubens of a Late Geometric pot | Day of Archaeology
• Roman theatres and contemporary arts: Australian archaeologists in Cyprus | Day of Archaeology
• Dirt, Data, and Drones: Sardis from Site to Archive to Outreach | Day of Archaeology
• Final Report to the NEH for Online Coins of the Roman Empire | Day of Archaeology
• 19 years of excavation in Sidon, Lebanon. | Day of Archaeology
• The Heat is on! Drones and Thermal Cameras in Archaeology | Day of Archaeology